Large contribution boosts Trust Fund for Victims of ICC crimes
During a visit to the ICC this week, French Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira announced her country’s voluntary contribution of €750,000 to the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV), the largest contribution to the Fund made by France to date.

This substantive contribution follows the Fund’s submission of its first reparations plan early November 2015 in the Lubanga case, the ICC’s landmark first trial.

The ICC is the first international tribunal to provide reparations to victims, a key restorative feature of the Rome Statute, the Court’s founding treaty. In this regard, the TFV is in charge of implementing Court-ordered reparations awards and providing general assistance to victims of heinous crimes with voluntary contributions from donors.

Civil society has long been calling on states to contribute to the TFV in order to fully achieve the goal of a victims centered court.